Media with Interesting Female Characters

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Interesting is in the eye of the beholder to an extent. I find female characters particularly compelling when they are wrestling with their identity and role as a woman within their circumstances although that doesn't describe all of these characters. I don't much care for coming of age tales (typically). Complex female characters I can think of off the top of my head:

- Lissar from Deerskin (retelling of Donkey Skin)
- Anna from Year of Wonders (book takes an absolute, unbelievable nosedive in the final quarter)
- The unnamed narrator/main character from Rebecca (book, haven't seen any of the movies)
- Delphine from Between Two Fires
- The biologist from Annihilation (book and movie although there are some big differences between both)
- The Voerman sisters from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
- The mom in Hereditary even though I don't like that movie much
- The girls in Bodies Bodies Bodies are all despicable but are all great near-caricatures of Gen Z women in a way that's not just "ohmigod women am i rite"
 
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Star Trek Voyager (serious)
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Bunch of wusses hating on Janeway for "violating the prime directive," and "committing war crimes," and "committing time crimes." Her only crime was not going far enough!

The episode where an alien civilization cooks up a fake evil Voyager crew to frame for a bio-holocaust is the best. We get to see what a badass she could have been, if the writers didn't chicken out of writing a story about a desperate captain lost in unknown territory with a crew full of terrorists.
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I recently saw both the movies with Furiosa and they left my jimmies decidedly unrustled. I thought they were great!
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Janeway murders Tuvix (Star Fact: they reused the horrible transporter error scream sound effect from Star Trek: The Motion Picture as Tuvix's annihilation shriek)

One of my favorite Trek-related things to do is spending the last 18 years trying to convince my friend that Janeway killed Tuvix by ejecting him out into space. He watched the episode with me when it came out, he knows how it really ended and he's not stupid or gullible or anything. An internet search could easily confirm the truth if he chose to look and I'm sure that he probably has at some point. But I can see the spark of doubt building more and more in his eyes each time I insist that I remember the episode ending with the crew standing at the windows and watching his body float by after Janeway jettisons him through the airlock. after the body passes from view Tom Paris pats the airlock button affectionately and says something like "two nerds with one stone", which causes the crew to erupt into laughter before the fade to black and credits.
 
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Kamikaze Girls movie
Thelma & Louise
Lady Snowblood
Kill Bill (yes I am aware its western LS)
The Villainess
Damages
Fargo S2 (Kirsten Dunst and Jean Smart save this season.)
Mare of Easttown
Ally McBeal
Sakuran (film and manga are great and the former is visually and stylistically gorgeous)
Elementary (Lucy Liu as Watson works better than you'd think, and it isn't a diversity hire either)
ER (Hathaway, Lewis, Corday, Weaver, and Chen are very well rounded characters. You'll grow to despise Weaver because she's such a bitch)
Burn The House Down

Boom. There you go.
 
I've been enjoying the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir so far. The book series is free on Kindle right now and the main characters are all mostly female and well written. Granted, I'm only halfway through the first book, but so far so good. Hopefully it doesn't turn to shit later.
 
Kino's Journey
In short Kino is an identity lifted from another person, a traveler whos only goal is to see the whims of humanity as a 3rd party; Kino is complicated in that they have a level headed, analytical, rules based way of interacting with people and the cultures she sees. Often times shes really cold, allowing peoples fates to remain as they are, regardless of her feelings about the injustice occurring, as she chooses not to "play god", but theres also another side of this; when things heat up and some conflict occurs that she cant level headedly get her way out of, her actions in turn also become more erratic and morally ambiguous, sometimes even breaking her own rules, and in that finding the motivations to these rules to begin with, digging deeper into Kino's own motivations and values.

All of this is to say that Kino is a self sufficient, morally ambiguous, complicated character, who is both a calm and detached person to protect herself from the world shes exploring, while simultaneously having an intense and genuine love for it, despite the ugliness within it...

and I guess shes a woman too.
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A female character isn't the main focus but king of the hill writes middle age women very well imo, something that I've seen female writers themselves struggle to do.
 
I didn't see it on here, but Teen Titans from Cartoons Network (from 2005). It's cartoony, and it was cancelled because Cartoon Network realized girls liked watching the show, and thought that boys(the main cash cow) would stop watching it if they found out.
I will admit it suffers by characterizing the women by their hair color. Raven is gloomy and has short dark purple hair. Starfire is spacey and cheerful, and she has long red hair.
I also didn't see Avatar: The Last Airbender on here. I recommend it. I didn't enjoy the sequel as much, and I found Korra to be too feisty and dramatic. It's stereotypical to me.
 
Faulkner was fairly progressive for his time in his portrayal of female characters. I especially like how the last section of The Sound and the Fury switched to 3rd person instead of Caddy Compson’s narration like you would expect, almost as if to spare her from her perpetually miserable family. He cares about his characters and also he makes fun of tards so he’s alright in my book (pun intended) :)

Capitola the Madcap is my favorite portrayal of feminism in any media—just a person being comfortable with who they are and running around not giving a fuck about gender norms. Also Esmeralda from Hunchback of Norte Dame.

I’ve really come to detest Disney’s portrayal of women in their recent movies. Captain Marvel and the remake’s Mulan were particularly sickening. Reducing a woman’s entire identity to a blank-faced “me strong, man stupid, me save world without making single expression all movie” caveman is just disgusting.

Gotta give Fried Green Tomatoes a shout-out too for being my gay awakening.
 
I thought Debra Morgan on Dexter was a pretty good character, even if the cursing was annoying sometimes. There were a bunch of interesting female characters on that show now that I think about it, Vogel, Lumen, Rita. LaGuerta was really annoying for a while but she got more fleshed out over time too.
 
Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul was already mentioned but she truly is an incredible character. It is criminal that her actress never won anything for playing her. She might be the best character the Breaking Bad verse showrunners have ever written. A spinoff about her would be great but improving upon perfection is a big ask.

Claudia from the new Interview With The Vampire show has been fun to watch.

I also really like the women in Metropolis, the same actress plays multiple characters and acts for her life in it. Fantastic stuff!
 
I know Margaret Atwood is both cucked to hell and Candian to boot, but I like The Year of The Flood, the second in the MadAddam series. Ren is a fascinating character to me. It's hard to discuss her without giving spoilers, and my own personal feelings about Atwood aside, the series of books is pretty good. Oryx and Crake is excellent and gets your noggin jogging about the back story, and The Year Of The Flood is a good follow up. Ren is just great. Smart, confident, calm but all so human too.
 
My go to is always Heather from Silent Hill 3. I don't think there's even been a better female protagonist in games and doubt there will be a better one any time soon given the current state of vidya.
 
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It's already been mentioned like 5 times but Voyager. Not just Janeway, either. I thought 7 of 9 was going to play the stereotype strong woman character (which she ends up doing in later shittier "Trek") but she ended up being one of my all time favorite Trek characters.
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I'm at an impasse with Picard where I want to watch it because it's cringe kino, but can't bring myself to watch it because it's too cringe.
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